EghtesadOnline: Iranian families living in urban areas spent an average of 329,525,000 rials ($7,845) in the last Iranian year (March 2017-18), 15.7% more than in the preceding year, the latest report by the Statistical Center of Iran shows.

EghtesadOnline: South Korea will focus on creating more jobs and increase spending modestly next year, while seeking out new sources of economic growth, the finance ministry said on Tuesday as it unveiled its draft 2017 budget.

EghtesadOnline: The spending gap between the richest and the poorest narrowed in the last Iranian year (March 2019-20), data from the Statistical Center of Iran show.

EghtesadOnline: The 55 petrochemical companies in Iran annually use 35 million tons of natural and liquefied gas as feedstock to produce 31 million tons of products, managing director of the National Petrochemical Company said.

EghtesadOnline: The cost of managing watershed projects is much lower than the cost and damages inflicted by floods due to ignoring and delaying such projects, says a water expert at the Water, Environment and Energy Innovation and Technology Center in Tehran.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian households’ spending on cosmetics increased in the last Iranian year [ended March 20, 2019] compared with the year before, but consumption shows a decline due to inflation, the Persian economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad reported, citing the Statistical Center of Iran's data.

EghtesadOnline: The Ministry of Economy has plans to issue Manfa’at Sukuk worth 100 trillion rials ($877 million) to help augment government spending , according to the head of Capital Market Central Asset Management Company.

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani’s Cabinet approved plans on Sunday to cut down the government's unnecessary expenses.